Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics
Total Time: 28 hour(s)

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Using Rich Web Controls and Debugging Applications

Time: 4 hours

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This course explains how to use the AdRotator, Calendar, and Xml Web server controls. The course also provides an overview of ASP.NET Web application debugging, covering page-level and application-level tracing, error handling, and using Visual Studio .NET's built-in debugger.

Describe and use AdRotator control properties and events
Describe and use Calendar control properties and events
Use the Xml Web Server control

Implement page-level and application-level tracing
Display and log error messages
Attach the debugger to an application at runtime

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Data Binding and Working with Control Templates

Time: 3 hours

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This course explains data binding with various server controls and data sources. The course also explains how to tailor the look and feel of Web forms by using Web Server Control templates, and explains how to use templates with the Repeater, DataList and DataGrid controls.

Explain the function of data binding
Bind page and control properties
Describe various binding methods and expressions
Bind to an ArrayList, HashTable, and DataView

Bind to an ArrayList, HashTable, and DataView
Create Web Server control templates
Use templates with various controls

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Creating Mobile Applications and Using ADO.NET

Time: 4 hours

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This course provides an overview of how to use Visual Studio .NET to create applications for mobile devices such as cell phones and personal data assistants (PDAs). The course also introduces ADO.NET, explains the improvements made over ADO, and shows how to use ADO.NET to access a database.

Explain what the Wireless Application Protocol is and how it's used
Describe the Mobile Internet Toolkit
Create a mobile Web application project
Use validation and list controls in a mobile Web application project

Describe the ADO.NET Object Model
Create a Data Aware application
Connection an application with a SQL Server database
Access and manipulate the data, and display the results

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Working with XML, Configuration, and HTTP Handlers

Time: 5 hours

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This course provides an overview of the use of XML with Visual Studio .NET. The course also provides an in-depth discussion of how to code various ASP.NET configuration settings to make Web applications run properly. Finally, the course shows how to build HTTP handlers to process user requests.

Describe XML and the Document Type Definition
Explain namespaces and schemas
Convert data to XML
Bind data with XML documents

Describe the ASP.NET configuration system
Explain the various configuration settings in ASP.NET
Describe HTTP handlers
Create HTTP handlers

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Caching, Security, and Migration

Time: 3 hours

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This course shows users how to employ caching in the applications they design using Visual Studio .NET. The course also provides an overview of the various ASP.NET, IIS and Windows security mechanisms available to Visual Studio .NET programmers. The course concludes with an in-depth discussion of how to upgrade older ASP-based Web sites to ASP.NET technology.

Explain how caching functions in Visual Studio .NET
Implement various types of caching
Describe how dependency impacts caching
Describe IIS and ASP.NET security mechanisms

Implement Forms and Windows authentication in an ASP.NET application
Retrieve and validate user information from an ASP.NET application
Migrate from ASP to ASP.NET, optimizing your Web site during the migration

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Working with Web Services

Time: 5 hours

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This course shows users how to create Web services with Visual Studio .NET, then how to add data controls and functions and test the Web service. The course explains how Web service clients work and how to create a Web service client. The course also covers various techniques for implementing security within a Web service.

Describe various Web service templates
Create a Web service and add functionality to it
Finalize a Web service project
Create a Web service client project

Add Web references and implement Web methods to a Web service client project
Restrict access, and grant access to IP addresses, for a Web service client project
Manage the Web Service directory

Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: Deploying Applications

Time: 4 hours

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This course shows users how to get the programs they've developed in Visual Studio .NET up and running in the real world. The course presents detailed information on deployment of Windows applications as well as Web-based applications.

Create a Windows deployment project
Add files, icons, screens, and an installer bootstrapper to a deployment project
Test a Windows deployment project

Create a Web deployment project
Test an installation
Configure merge module projects and CAB files